- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Books of the Dead (Aug 4 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1927112001
- ISBN-13: 978-1927112007
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.3 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,032,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
This is it! Gary Brandner's famous book, "THE HOWLING." A must read!
"If you haven't read Gary Brandner you're missing a treat."
~ STEPHEN KING.
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Karyn and her husband Roy had come to the peaceful California village of Drago to escape the savagery of the city. On the surface Drago appeared to be like most small rural towns.
But it was not.
The village had a most unsavory history. Unexplained disappearances, sudden deaths.
People just vanished, never to be found.
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Don't forget to check out:
THE HOWLING II
&
THE HOWLING III
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Zzzzzzzz.....Very Slow, Very Boring....,
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This review is from: The Howling (Paperback)
Well, what is there to say about this book?It's pretty much on par with it's faithful movie adaptation, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare. Slow as hell and relentlessly boring!! Not much of anything of interest happens throughout the dull 28 chapters. The Story is simple enough. Karyn and Roy Beatty are a lovely young and rich couple who are expecting their very first child. They are the picture perfect idea of happiness. That is until Karyn is brutally and graphically raped in their apartment while Roy stepped out. The assault leaves Karyn severely traumatized with a stillborn child. It's up to Roy to take care of Karyn now. Roy takes her to a small sleepy town in the mountains called Drago, to help her recover. All seems like a terrific idea until the couple has trouble coping with each other in the isolation in the wilderness. Things slowly start to go wrong, until they fully begin to spiral out of control (Violently and Unexpectedly!!) Y'see, Karyn Beatty is afraid. Whenever the sun goes down and the couple climbs under the covers to bed down, she hears The Howling. The Howling comes from deep within the woods by something evil, something dangerous... I Know, it sounds a lot better than it actually is. I try to keep on reading, but I get so frustrated and bored with the slow pacing of the book, I put it aside and go to sleep before anything interesting happens. (That's Funny, because nothing that interesting does happen in The Howling.) Do Yourself A Favor. Just Rent "The Howling" by Joe Dante with Dee Wallace Stone and Christopher Stone. It's Actually A Helluva Lot Better Than This rag.
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Howling,
By A Customer
This review is from: HOWLING (Mass Market Paperback)
Rent the movie. It's far more interesting. While reading this book I got the feeling that the author was relying a bit too much on shock value and sacrificing plot. Having seen the movie in the past, I was disappointed with the novel.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The book that started it all for me...,
By Jim Lay (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: THE HOWLING (Mass Market Paperback)
Gary Brander's HOWLING was the first adult horor novel I ever read (back in 1978, when I was 11 or 12) and I credit it with launching my lifetime love (and obsession) for horror fiction. It's a bit tame by today's standards, but it is so engaging and neat, that I still find myself picking it up every few years to relive the excitement and delightful terror that it inspired in me the first time I read it... A young woman is brutally raped and under the advice of her therapist, she and her husband vacation in a small rural town called Drago. Despite the picturesque town and it's beautiful forests, the citizens of Drago are hiding a dark secret. A secret betrayed by an inhuman howling that echoes through the night beneath the full moon. The young woman soon finds that nothing is as it seems and soon she will be running for her life from mythical horrors... Brander's clear, concise writing and his tight plotting serve the story very well and it has genuine creepiness in it. (Something that's missing from a lot of modern horror fiction.) In my opinion, Brander is the "Godfather of Horror".
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